Dictionary

kulak en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkulæk/ (US)
• /ˈkuːlak/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

1877. From Russian кула́к (kulák, “wealthy peasant; fist; tight-fisted person”), plural кулаки́ (kulakí). Compare also Russian раскула́чивание (raskuláčivanije, “dekulakization”), подкула́чник (podkuláčnik, “subkulak”).

Meanings

1. (historical) A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
   • We are the “upper middle class”, the new kulaks whose antisocial self-interest and lack of submission to the aims of the revolutionary vanguard must be extinguished. 2015 February 6, Nick Gillespie, “To the Barricades, Brooklyn Yuppies!”, in The Dailey Beast, retrieved 20150206:
   • The “internal organs,” as the CHEKA and the GPU and the KGB used to style themselves, were asked to police the mind for heresy as much as to torture kulaks to relinquish the food they withheld from the cities. 2002 Sep, Christopher Hitchens, “Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight”, in The Atlantic:

Forms

Deriveds

de-kulakise · dekulakize · kulakise · de-kulakisation · anarcho-kulak · kulakdom · kulakisation · dekulakisation · de-kulakization · dekulakization · dekulakise · self-dekulakisation · kulakization · self-dekulakization · de-kulakize · subkulak · kulakize · kulakism

Hypernyms

landlord · employer [⇒ thesaurus] · petit bourgeois

Synonyms

kurkul

Translations (64)

ro culac (prosperous peasant) · cs kulak (prosperous peasant) · pt kulak (prosperous peasant) · ka კულაკი (prosperous peasant) · tg кулак (prosperous peasant) · it culacco (prosperous peasant) · nl koelak (prosperous peasant) · bg кула́к (prosperous peasant) · he קולאק (prosperous peasant) · hi कुलक (prosperous peasant) · ar قُولَاق (prosperous peasant) · ro chiabur (prosperous peasant) · pl kułak (prosperous peasant) · el κουλάκος (prosperous peasant) · uk кула́к (prosperous peasant) · fa کولاک (prosperous peasant) · nn kulakk (prosperous peasant) · uz quloq (prosperous peasant) · tk kulak (prosperous peasant) · de Kulakin (prosperous peasant) · fr koulak (prosperous peasant) · nog кулак (prosperous peasant) · de Kulak (prosperous peasant) · mr कुलाक (prosperous peasant) · vi cu-lắc (prosperous peasant) · be кула́к (prosperous peasant) · sk kulak (prosperous peasant) · sh кулак (prosperous peasant) · hy կուլակ (prosperous peasant) · az kulak (prosperous peasant) · et kulak (prosperous peasant) · ja クラーク (prosperous peasant) · uz kulak (prosperous peasant) · uk курку́ль (prosperous peasant) · sh kulak (prosperous peasant) · ru кула́к (prosperous peasant) · hi कूलाक (prosperous peasant) · ru курку́ль (prosperous peasant) · sl kulak (prosperous peasant) · lv budzis (prosperous peasant) · mn кулак (prosperous peasant) · vi phú nông (prosperous peasant) · lt kulakas (prosperous peasant) · xal кулак (prosperous peasant) · izh kulakka (prosperous peasant) · tr kulak (prosperous peasant) · hu kulák (prosperous peasant) · ko 부농 (prosperous peasant) · ar كُولَاك (prosperous peasant) · da kulak (prosperous peasant) · ja 富農 (prosperous peasant) · be курку́ль (prosperous peasant) · kk кулак (prosperous peasant) · lv kulaks (prosperous peasant) · lt buožė (prosperous peasant) · sv kulak (prosperous peasant) · fi kulakki (prosperous peasant) · af koelak (prosperous peasant) · ky кулак (prosperous peasant) · ko 쿨라크 (prosperous peasant) · nb kulakk (prosperous peasant) · cmn 富農 /富农 (prosperous peasant) · mk кула́к (prosperous peasant) · es kulak (prosperous peasant)